The Green Bank Telescope active surface system

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3351, Issue , 1998, Pages 310-319

  Lacasse, Richard J ^a  

^a NARAO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; COMPUTER CONTROL SYSTEMS; DC MOTORS; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES TO APPARATUS; HOLOGRAPHY; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); LASER APPLICATIONS; MAINTAINABILITY; MIRRORS; RANGE FINDING; RELIABILITY; TEMPERATURE MEASURING INSTRUMENTS;

GREEN BANK TELESCOPE; LASER RANGING SYSTEM; SURFACE ACCURACY; SURFACE CONTROL; TELESCOPE CONTROL SYSTEM; TEMPERATURE MONITORS;

RADIO TELESCOPES;

EID: 0032404546     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.308802     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (27)

1. Measurement program for the Green bank telescope
2. Position control of the mirror figure control actuator for the Keck observatory ten meter primary mirror
3. Performance data on panel actuators
4. The 45-meter telescope
5. The Nobeyama 45-meter telescope
6. GBT surface accuracy
7. The Green bank telescope laser metrology R&D project
8. GBT phases
9. GBT
10. Primary or secondary compensation
11. Brush vs. brushless motors for the active surface
12. Requirements on use of the GBT active surface
13. Pots or LVDT
14. Evaluation of LVDT units for the GBT
15. Report on lightning induced transients in NRAO actuator cable
16. The message system application interface
17. The GBT precision pointing system
18. Summary of life tests of GBT panel actuators
19. Actuator short step life tests